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2.9 BBC iPLAYER AND WEBBIE’S ACCESSIBLES

The internet offers huge listening possibilities for keeping up-to-date and involved using BBC iPlayer for radio and TV, the latest News, Parliamentary reports, news feeds and podcasts and you can choose the time when you listen to them.

You get the following Accessible Programs in WebbIE. They all work in the same way and contain help files.

BBC iPlayer Radio;

BBC iPlayer TV;

Calendar;

Check for Updates;

Disc Explorer;

Gutenberg Library;

Internet Explorer Appearance Editor;

Live BBC Radio;

PDF Reader;

Podcatcher;

Radio Tuner;

RSS News Feeder;

TeamViewer Support Tool;

Webbie Directory.

TO GET TO WEBBIE’S ACCESSIBLES

WINDOWS VISTA AND LATER:

Press WINDOWS key to get to the Start menu. Type the first three letters of the Accessible program you want and press ENTER. ARROW DOWN and UP to check you have the right one and press ENTER to launch it.

WINDOWS XP:

Press WINDOWS key. ARROW DOWN to "All Programs", RIGHT ARROW and DOWN ARROW to "Accessibles" and ENTER.

BBC iPLAYER

This allows you to listen to programmes that the BBC has broadcast over the past week. To launch the BBC iPlayer:

VISTA AND LATER:

Press the WINDOWS key and type BBC. ARROW UP and DOWN to "BBC iPlayer radio" or "BBC iPlayer TV" and press ENTER.

WINDOWS XP:

Press the Windows Key. ARROW DOWN to All Programs, RIGHT ARROW and DOWN ARROW to "Accessible". RIGHT ARROW again until you hear BBC iPlayer and then press ENTER on radio or TV.

The first time you choose radio, it will come up with Radio1, and BBC1 if you choose television. Next time, it will remember what you last used. ARROW UP and DOWN through the list of channels and stations and press ENTER on your choice.

Programmes are arranged alphabetically, so ARROW Up and DOWN and press ENTER on your choice. It may take a few seconds to be fetched and there may be a minute or so of the previous programme or trailer.

ALT C takes you to where you can make choices about playing, ARROW DOWN and UP to Pause, Play, Restart, Jump to and Volume.

Close the program with ALT F4.

 

The Free Internet Cafe for the Blind & Visually Impaired, the first in the whole of Africa, which opens the World Wide Web, making The Gambia a leading light in Africa, with this technology by allowing free and total access to surf the net send and receive emails and for students to enhace their studies with the aid of this pioneering software. No more do they need to rely on a third party to read to them newspapers, magazines, books, letters and world wide information.